Happy 808 Day! Check out this documentary about the classic Roland drum machine
It being August 8th (8/08), it is customary to a groundbreaking piece of kit that still forms the backbone of…
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Artificial Life Begins At 40: Why Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine is more relevant now than ever… [May 1978]
“We’re charging our battery, and now we’re full of energy. We are the robots.” Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine was released 40…
Think you know David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’? You’ve never heard it like this before…
As today is ‘Aphex Twin Day’ (Avril 14th), I’ve dug up one from the archives that is perhaps more suited…
Injected With A Poison’s strange, ecumenical origins…
Injected With A Poison by Praga Khan is one of most frenetic rave tracks of the early 90s, packed with…
12 TUNES OF CHRISTMAS: Incredible Intros. #1: New Order – Blue Monday [1983]
Well, we’ve made it. Over the past 12 days, 909originals has brought you what it deems to be the most…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Der Dritte Raum – Hale Bopp [August 1998]
It’s rare enough that you can say that a particular track could have been released ‘at any time in the…
Aphex Twin on harnessing the power of dreams… [April 1995]
Aphex Twin, aka Richard D James, has been behind some of the most dramatic soundscapes and piercing noise of the…
Holger Czukay – Cool In The Pool forever…
While I never considered myself a fan, I always admired Krautrock band Can for their persistent driving rhythms and dashes…
Remembering the time Kraftwerk played a field near Luton [June 1997]…
Since the launch of their Tour de France Soundtracks album in 2003, Kraftwerk have been touring fairly regularly – 909originals…
Indigenous culture meets electronica…
Today (9 August) is the UN ‘International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples’, and while indigenous culture and electronic music…